Question: We have a nurse practitioner (NP) starting who is not yet credentialed but is shadowing our doctors for both her and them to get comfortable with her and the process of the office. One of our doctors is letting her do procedures while she is in the room with her and the NP is dictating the visit, but we will be billing under the doctor. Is this allowed?

The international lab company announced Dec. 12 that an unauthorized third party accessed the MyQuest by Care360® patient portal and “obtained protected health information (PHI) of approximately 34,000 individuals” on Nov. 26, 2016.

The list of Part B services with the most improper payments estimated by CMS for 2016 includes some of your most-billed services, according to data from the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program and other sources and published annually in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Improper Payments Report. Note that failure to establish medical necessity isn’t usually a factor; the mistake is more likely due to a coding error or a shortfall in documentation.

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